Example sentences of "[vb past] under [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the seven major countries the only periods of majority left governments between 1950 and 1973 were those of Wilson in the United Kingdom ( 1964–70 ) and Brandt in Germany ( 1970–3 ) , yet spending on welfare rose under Macmillan , Adenauer , de Gaulle , under both Nixon and Kennedy , as well as under a succession of Italian and to some extent even Japanese prime ministers of the right . |
| 2 | Employed first by Edward III , he rose under Edward the Black Prince [ q.v. ] , and became his secretary in 1375 and an executor of his will in 1376 . |
| 3 | Customs duties rose under Mary and landed income fell in real terms : by 1603 the two were nearly level , as they had been in 1509 . |
| 4 | I trained under Nurse Gatenby and at the time we were known as the Gatenby girls . |
| 5 | Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham . |
| 6 | Dr. Dey trained under Sir John Weir and Dr. Foubister at The Royal London Homœopathic Hospital . |
| 7 | In his first spell with the Palace , Steve matured under Dick Graham , Arthur Rowe and Bert Head and quickly became an important part of Palace 's sides in the late 1960s , when his talented inside-forward or midfield displays were one of the hallmarks of Palace performances . |
| 8 | One third of this now sagged under water . |
| 9 | Well before noon , beside a small church whose roof sagged under clumps of grass and willow-herb , they came to the bridge over to Grandtully and looked across at the dense little settlement , lumpish houses made of undressed river boulders with brown smoke streaming through their heather thatch , hovels of branches littered through the trees , a few solid cottages with level roof-trees . |
| 10 | During the course of the trial , one patient complained of regurgitation and another of diarrhoea , but in both cases these mild signs of intolerance occurred under placebo . |
| 11 | Ask voters to say what comes to mind when they think of the Labour Party and a large proportion mention , ‘ the unions ’ , ‘ strikes ’ , ‘ the winter of discontent ’ , and ‘ the three-day week ’ , even though this last event occurred under Mr Heath . |
| 12 | Dramatic changes occurred under Gorbachev , who was anxious that genuine discussion of public issues should take place in the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | He almost , in a flutter of panic — the strange reaction down below , the street now black with people — fled under Meg 's bed himself . |
| 14 | Passing the old port , where the weather-worn fishing fleet was moored in tidy rows against the quay , they headed under power into Porta Nuova . |
| 15 | That same year , the total length of river dredged under capital schemes by water authorities in England and Wales amounted to an estimated 223 miles , as opposed to 1,165 miles of maintenance dredging . |
| 16 | The defence of disclaimer is available to someone charged under section 1(1) ( b ) . |
| 17 | This dealer commits an offence under section 1(1) ( a ) and the defence of disclaimer is no defence whatsoever to someone charged under section 1(1) ( a ) , R. v. Southwood ( 1987 C.A. ) . |
| 18 | The low lands were patched with hayfields at every stage of readiness , from bleached yellow to ferny green , and across the coloured surfaces people moved as though they were stitching and knitting at its texture , arms pulling on rakes , backs stooped under burdens on their way to the steadings . |
| 19 | He turned his horse and drove under St John 's Gate , anxious with the keenness of youth to see if there was anything he could do , but it was obvious from the start that the poor man was beyond all earthly help . |
| 20 | A BBC cameraman was killed yesterday when his vehicle came under mortar fire in Bosnia . |
| 21 | Their car came under mortar fire and they had to cross five military checkpoints . |
| 22 | CHESHIRE soldiers were forced to shoot their way out of an ambush when they came under mortar and machine-gun fire . |
| 23 | The top security Miguel Castro Castro prison in Lima , two cell blocks of which were controlled by Sendero Luminoso guerrillas , came under assault by armed paramilitary police from May 6 until May 9 , when 451 Sendero prisoners were officially said to have surrendered . |
| 24 | Quite which faults of Eva 's came under condemnation is unclear but the family pet name for her was " Draughty " . |
| 25 | Proposals for minimum wage regulations also came under attack . |
| 26 | Page 29 Pound pressure : The Bank of England spent $1bn as the pound came under attack when it became clear that an increase in West German rates today is a virtual certainty . |
| 27 | At the Brighton conference , though , it came under attack from those who make maps of the sky . |
| 28 | Even apart from these wider consequences of his thought about persons , Locke 's idea that their identity consists in continuity of self-consciousness came under attack . |
| 29 | Ironically , a few years later Ken Clarke came under attack on the same issue . |
| 30 | However , this system came under attack from the National Board for Prices and Incomes in the late 1960s . |